Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-03-04
TEMPERANCE L
Compiled by Miss Julia Ames, of the w. c.
II. Chicnro.i

by Miss Julia Alnes, of the W. c. T.
u, Chicago.i
OUT of 5000 saloon-keepers in New
York City 6,4OO are said to be e~x-convicts.
THE consumption of Kentucky whisky
in this country has decreased nearly two
million gallons in the past year.
PROHIBITION has largely increased the
street-car receipts in Providence. r. l., as
the workmen now take a car instead OF
liquor.
Mrs. MANCEL T%ALosTT, of Chicago,
has given $3.50 for the endowment of a
child's bed in the National Temperance
Hospital.
A RECENT canvass of the schools of En-
gland revealed the fact that 95 per cent. of
the young people taking first rank are men,
bers of Bands of Hope.
A Law has been passed in Switzerland
making the sale of liquor a state monop-
oily. 0ne-tenth of the profits from the sales
are to be devoted to the temperance cause.
The students in the Toronto and Trinity
Medical Schools, Canada, have formed o
powerful society under the name of The
Temperance League OF Medical Students
of Toronto"
A NEW society has been started in Chi
ChSO, WulCA COulOluCS clupcluuCS Huu gus.
pei work. 1t is known as the Young Peo-
Piles Methodist Alliance, and has a mem
bership Of l,400.
MISS CHARLOTTE GRAY, Organizing
Secretary of the Worlds w. G. Il. o., IS
now in Switzerland, making known to the
women of that nation the aim and object
of the white-ribbon organization.
The pay-car on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, last week, carried, besides the
paymaster, o temperance pledge which
sired to remain in the employ of that road.
MISS ANNA GORDON, Assistant National
Superintendent of Juvenile Work, will soon
have ready for publication a most unique
birthday book, which will bear the attrac-
tive title of "The White Ribbon Scrap
Book"
MISS FRANCES E. WILLARD is making
q slx-weeks' tour in the East. Her brave
utterances in behalf of Purity in the
Home and God in the Government" will be
heard in q score of the largest cities on her
route.
DURING the last twenty-one years the
expected claims in the total abstinence Sec
ton of Il of the largest life insurance
companies of England We're 361. The
"SsuuA NC1C xOA, VI OILY I'd Der cent.
OF the expectancy.
The great demand there is for able and
practical setting forth of the Temperance
question is shown by the fact that eighty
two thousand copies Of Miss Wizards an
nual address, delivered at Minneapolis,
have already been printed.
Mrs. MARY CLEMENT LEAv1rr soon
finishes her labors in Japan, and will
Then go to India, and from thence to Africa.
ms brave apostle of temperance is max
ing the W. e.. ~. known and appreciated
IN every land and by all people.
FATHER Golfer has been laboring for
the past year to promote total abstinence
principles among the Irish Catholics of this
country. His mission has been IL most sue
sesslul one, seventeen thousand persons
having taken the pledge from his hand.
The W.. G. T. U. of Washington, D. c.,
mas opened a"Help and Hope Mission" in
that city. Such places of refuge for the
unfortunate are being established in all
large cities, and are the outcome of the
socla, purity work i%naugurated by the Ma
uonal Union over a year ago.
Vermont Legislature has recently
passed the most perfect law requiring SCI
entlflc temperance instruction in the public
SCHOOLS yet enacted in any of the States.
- contains q provision providing for the
forfeiture of all school funds to any school
which fails to give such instruction.
ARkANGEMESTs are being perfected for
me erection in Chicago of a $5OO,0OO VIC.
-. :. building. 1t will be used rs the
n~saaquarsers OF the national officers, and
also OF the Woman's Temperance Publca.
uon Association. The fact that Mrs. T.B.
Sarse is taking the lead in the enterprise
lnsures its success.
x "A Call has been issued by the United
hlngdom Alliance, for a convention to be
held in Exeter Hall, London. Feb. Is and
10. 1t is designed to make this the most
representative temperance conference Great
p nd,ia m, has ever known. All the leading
Will be present. The object Of the cor.
sentlon is to agree upon the best methods
" ac!lon TO induce Parliament to enact
measure asa giving localities power to decide
whether they shall giant license ,w not.